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Guide for the Reader
This book is a collection important
of accessible readings on some of the most
topics in cognitive
science . Anyone interested in the inter -
disiplinary study of mind should find these selections worth reading , but they work particularly well in company with my textbook Mind : Introduction to Cognitive Science(MIT Press, 1996 ) . I have looked for up - to - date (less than a decade old ) selections that provide further discussion of the major approaches and challenges to cognitive science that are discussed there . I have chosen selections that I hope will be
comprehensible to people with little background in cognitive science. The table below displays the correspondences between the chapters in the textbook and those in this anthology . Chapters 1- 8 of this anthology present the most important approachesto cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations . The remaining
selections concern
important challenges to the computational - representational understanding of mind . Together , Mind and Mind Readingsprovide all the material needed for an accessible one semester introductory cognitive
course in
science .
Mind chapter
Mind Readingschapter
1
Representation
2
Logic
and Computation
2 Johnson- Laird and Byrne
1
Simon
3
Rules
3
Anderson
4
Pinker
4
Concepts
5
Medin
5
Analogies
6
Gentner and Markman
6
Images
7
Glasgow and Papadias
7
Connections
8
Rumelhart
x
Guidefor the Reader
Mind chapter Review and Evaluation 8
9
Emotions and Consciousness
10 Physical and Social Environments
Mind
Readings
none
9
Oatley
10
Flanagan
11
Mackworth
12
Durfee
11 Dynamic Systems
13 Eliasmi th
12 The Future of Cognitive Science
none
chapter
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